Bhutto Murdered
 

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said.



"The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred," Bhutto's lawyer Babar Awan said.

A party security adviser said Bhutto was shot in neck and chest as she got into her vehicle to leave the rally in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. A gunman then blew himself up.

"At 6:16 p.m. she expired," said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/...re_as/pakistan

I have a feeling that this is going to backfire on the Islamists. She was a very corrupt individual as it was, but as a symbol, she and her assassination will probably be more unstoppable.

I was not really shocked to read this. I agree with Kevin.

It made me think of the movie Hitman that I just saw. Maybe that was her body double. Movies bring out the conspiracy theorist in me.

I don't think she deserved to be assasinated... R.I.P

I am so blown. Sad.

Wow.

Just wow.

I mean, part of me isn't surprised, but the other part is just shocked that it came down to this. I didn't know a lot about her, but she at least talked a good game about getting Pakistan back under control (of course, she meant her/her party's control)

But just wow.

I almost threw up when I read the headline. Travesty.

I saw it on my yahoo page and stared at it for a while not sure I was reading it correctly. Wow. Just wow.

It's sad. It truly is sad.

/hijack

I saw this movie last night (I think it was called Shooter). It was a good movie, but the government really really was effing this guy (Marc Walhberg:D) over, for something they asked him to do.
/end jack

I am definitely really saddened by this, as well. It's horrible.

Good bad or indifferent, we must remember, they have Nuke capacity!:mad:

Whats his face may have stepped down from the military to run a civilian president country, I am sure he still has many frieneds who still back him!

This may back fire on someone!

Now I guess we can all sit back and see what the fall out will be.

As much as it wasn't a surprise, I'm still in shock. Any public individual is at risk as long as the extremists are out there.

I always admired her work and felt she was a strong individual. The corruption that she was accused of was alleged (and show me a politician that is not corrupt).

I am mourning her loss.

Benz, she was convicted.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/S...014512,00.html

The ability for Pakistan to have nuclear capabilities is scary considering this is a country on the brink of a civil war. I don't think that we will be able to sit back and see what happens though. If these nukes get into the wrong hands there could a very pissed off neighbor (India), who also has nuclear weapons, that might want to intervene

That was a good movie.